Broadens the perspective of recent work on the discourse of the Muslim Other in medieval Christendom by investigating pertinent texts, art, and artefacts, situating these local discourses of the Muslim Other in the larger cultural context of proto-Eurocentric discourse.

Foreword; J.C.Frakes Medieval Miscegenation: Hybridity and the Anxiety of Inheritance; L.Ramey   Celts Seen as Muslims and Muslims Seen by Celts in Medieval Literature; M.Boyd Prester John, Christian Enclosure and the Spatial Transmission of Islamic Alterity in the Twelfth Century West; C.Taylor Mapping the Muslims: Images of Islam in Middle High German Literature of the Thirteenth Century; D.F.Tinsley  Conflicted Coexistence: Christian-Muslim Interaction and its Representation in Medieval Armenia; S.La Porta   Don Quijote attacks his Muslim Other: The Maese Pedro Episode of Don Quijote; B.Fra-Molinero From Medieval to Modern: the Myth of Kosovo, 'The Turks,' and Montenegro (a Lacanian Interpretation); Z.Zlatar  Afterword; J.Tolan

JEROLD C. FRAKES Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo, USA.